If the French are so sure the Nuclear Testing of a bomb is so safe, let them drop it in the Northern Hemisphere instead of the South.

Poet, novelist, and short story writer                          

Selected Works:

Novels:

Post Office - 1971
Factotum - 1975
Women - 1978
Ham on Rye - 1982
Hollywood - 1989
Pulp - 1994

Poetry Collections:

Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail - 1960
Poems and Drawings - 1962
Longshot Poems for Broke Players - 1962
Run with the Hunted - 1962
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands - 1963
Crucifix in a Deathhand - 1965
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard - 1965
The Genius of the Crowd - 1966
2 by Bukowski - 1967
The Curtains Are Waving - 1967
At Terror Street and Agony Way - 1968
Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 story Window - 1968
A Bukowski Sampler - 1969
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills - 1969
Fire Station - 1970
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck - 1972
Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems - 1972
While the Music Played - 1973
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - 1974
Africa, Paris, Greece - 1975
Scarlet - 1976
Maybe Tomorrow - 1977
Legs, Hips and Behind - 1978
Love Is a Dog from Hell - 1977
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit - 1979
Dangling in the Tournefortia - 1982
War All the Time - book|War All the Time - 1984
Horses Don't Bet on People & Neither Do I - 1984
You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense - 1986
The Roominghouse Madrigals - 1988
Beauti-ful & Other Long Poems - 1988
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems - 1990
People Poems - 1991
The Last Night of the Earth Poems - 1992
Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories - 1996
Bone Palace Ballet - book|Bone Palace Ballet - 1998
What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire. - 1999
Open All Night - book|Open All Night - 2000
The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps - 2001
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way - 2003
As Buddha smiles - 2003
The Flash of the Lightning Behind the Mountain - 2004
Slouching Toward Nirvana - 2005
Come on In! - 2006
The People Look Like Flowers at Last - 2007
The Pleasures of the Damned - 2007
The Continual Condition - 2009

Short Story and Collections:

Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts - 1965
All the Assholes in the World and Mine - 1966
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - 1969
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness - 1972
South of No North - 1973
Hot Water Music - 1983
Tales of Ordinary Madness - 1983
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town - 1983
Portions from a Wine-stained Notebook: Short Stories and Essays - 2008
Absence of the Hero - 2010
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns - 2011

Nonfiction:

Shakespeare Never Did This - 1979; expanded - 1995
The Bukowski/Purdy Letters - 1983
Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters - 1993
Living on Luck: Selected Letters, vol. 2 - 1995
The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship - 1998
Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters, vol. 3 - 1999
Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondense of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli - 2001

Screenplays:
Barfly - 1984

Films:

Bukowski at Bellevue - 1970 – Poetry Reading
Supervan - 1977 – Feature Film - Not based on Bukowski's work but Bukowski had cameo appearance as Wet T-Shirt Contest Water Boy
There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here – Filmed: - 1979;
DVD Release: - 2008 – Poetry Reading
The Last Straw – Filmed: - 1980; DVD Release: - 2008 – Poetry Reading
Tales of Ordinary Madness – Feature Film
Poetry In Motion - 1982 – General Poetry Documentary - Bukowski is a featured interviewee
Barfly - 1987 – Feature Film
Crazy Love - 1987 – Feature Film - Belgium
Bukowski: Born Into This - 2002 – Biographical Documentary
Factotum - 2005 – Feature Film
The Suicide - 2006 – Short film
One Tough Mother - 2010 Released on DVD – Poetry Reading.                          

Parents Heinrich Bukowski and Katharina Fett.